I bought some cowl quarter patch panels for my 30-31 Fordor a month ago and after recieving them found them to short in length and the bead/bodyline at the bottom of the panel was wider than on the Fordor. I bought these from Mac's and there description says for all body styles. I checked Howell's web page and they list them for all body styles except the Fordor. Does anybody know of a source for cowl quater patch panels for a 30-31 Fordor? Here's a pic of what I've got:
I could be wrong, but I don't believe that the fordor cowl patches are available on the aftermarket. Like you see, the fordor cowl is about 3-4" longer then the tudor/coupe/roadster model a cowls. I need some as well for my 29' fordor cowl as well, and all of my looking around thru the normal model a parts houses(Macs, Snyders, etc)turned up nothing. There is a Hamb'er I have seen that does really nice Model A restoration work, and I believe I saw pictures on his website of a fordor that he built cowl patch panels for with the correct lower bead and everything. He had dies made up to create the lower bead as I recall. I don't know if he would be willing to make a couple sets of these up to sell, but I will find his contact info and shoot him a pm to see if it's possible(or profitable) for him to do them. I don't know if you are ready now to have them made, but I am at the point that I need them soon. I'll drop him a pm and see if its something that he could do. I would rather do it right in one patch panel then splice together two shorter patch panels if possible. When I hear back, I'll pm you to let you know Dan
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